Lakin representative blasts Tribune for “reckless” editorial

A spokeswoman for Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, a highly decorated veteran of multiple campaigns including Bosnia and Afghanistan accused the Greeley Tribune of violating journalistic ethics standards for a recent editorial comparing him to “balloon boy” and a transgender murderer.

The opinion piece titled “Off-beat behavior becoming the norm” mentioned several incidents in which Greeley residents have been in the national media. The article mentioned the Ft Collins “balloon boy”, Gary Faulkner who was hunting Osama Bin Ladin, Allen Andrade who murdered transgendered Justin Zapata, crop circles and UFO’s along with Lakin and asked the question “is their some sort of bizarre force that causes Greeley to be a sort of vacuum that sucks in strange and disturbing behavior?”

This prompted a response from Lakin spokeswoman Margaret Hemenway who sent an e-mail to the Tribune saying the article fell short of journalistic standards for “recklessly” lumping Lakin with the other “bizarre criminal cases” in the article. In the e-mail she told the Tribune “It is disappointing that many newspapers demanded candidate McCain prove he was “natural born” by producing his original birth certificate, but asserted Obama’s “online” Certification of Live Birth” was valid to determine his eligibility, even though never claimed by Hawaii officials as a state document.” She went on to say “Even today, no Hawaiian hospital will claim to be the President’s birthplace, while prominent Kenyans declare Obama was born there- including recently Minister of Lands James Orengo, speaking in Kenya’s Parliament.”

Hemenway told the Gazette the idea of linking a murderer with Lakin was “ridiculous, he is a peaceful and honorable man. This is despicable.”

Lt. Col. Lakin has officially been charged with violating Articles 87 and 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice for missing “the movement of US Airways Flight 1123” for Afghanistan and failing to report “to the office of his Brigade Commander”. Lakin has said that he wants the President to prove his eligibility to be Commander in Chief under the Constitution’s requirements that the President be a “natural born citizen.”

Lakin was scheduled to appear for an Article 32 hearing, the military equivalent of a preliminary court hearing, on June 12. However, after learning that he would not be given the right to bring in evidence about Obama’s birth or have Hawaiian officials testify, Lakin waived the right to the hearing which would permit the case to proceed directly to court martial.

The Gazette asked Hemenway about the status of the case and she said at this time no formal date for a court martial had been set. This has prompted some to wonder if there is a possibility the Army is looking for a way to make the case go away quietly similar to what happened in the case of Maj. Stefan Cook who also challenged Obama’s eligibility. Cook’s case was dismissed after his deployment orders to Afghanistan were abruptly cancelled.

While critics and numerous members of the media have said claims about the President’s eligibility have been debunked, the issue refuses to go away. Tim Adams, a former senior elections clerk for the city and county of Honolulu said Obama “definitely” was not born on U.S. soil. “As of the time I was in Hawaii working in the elections office we had many people who were asking about the eligibility of Senator Obama to be President. I was told at the time there is no long-form birth record, which would have been the case if President Obama was born in [a] hospital in Honolulu. There is no such form in Hawaii.”

Adams went on to state that the Certification of Live Birth is issued to children born on foreign soil stating that it is given to “children of families who are residents of Hawaii when children are born outside the state.” What makes this case unique is that Adams was a Hillary Clinton supporter who supports the President and he has criticized those who say Obama is not eligible to be Commander in Chief.

In Ohio, licensed private investigator Susan Daniels has said Obama is using a social security number issued in Connecticut even though there is no record of the President ever having lived in the state. The records indicate the number was issued between 1977 and 1979, however Obama said he worked for Baskin-Robbins in 1975.

Hemenway said it was noteworthy the Administration has not condemned Daniels for her findings or denied the allegations. “You would think if a licensed private investigator said that about the President of the United States and was lying they would prosecute her and strip her credentials” she said “they went after Joe the plumber and looked into his personal records, why wouldn’t they do something similar for someone who is basically accusing the President of fraud?”

There have been other cases involving members of the military questioning the President’s eligibility. Capt. Connie Rhodes, an Army doctor, filed suit in the U.S. District Court in Columbus, Ga. requesting a restraining order stopping her deployment to Iraq, the case is currently under appeal. Dr. Orly Taitz told the Gazette she is currently representing over 200 members of the military on eligibility issues. Taitz was born and raised in the former Soviet Union and is the President of Defend Our Freedoms Foundation. She is currently running for California Secretary of State.

Regarding the Certification of Live Birth, Taitz said she has an affidavit from a relative of Obama who is a computational linguist who has noted two discrepancies in the certificate. One is the use of “African” for the father’s race instead of the term “Negro” which was the common designation at that time. The other is the child’s name “Barack Hussein Obama II” in those years the designation was “Jr.” on documents. “Linguistically, there are a number of inconsistencies along with selective service certificates. He doesn’t have any vital documents available for the public to view” Taitz said “We do not have a judge with integrity who will follow the law and the constitution and hear the case on its merits.”

Hemenway’s father-in-law John Hemenway represented retired military officer Gregory Hollister. In that case the judge dismissed the case because he felt “the issue of the President’s citizenship was raised, vetted, blogged, texted, twittered, and otherwise massaged by America’s vigilant citizenry during Mr. Obama’s two-year-campaign for the Presidency.”

For more information on Lt. Col Lakin and the status of his case visit www.safeguardourconstitution.com

For details on other eligibility challenges visit Dr. Orly Taitz’s website at www.orlytaitzesq.com

Thank you Greeley Gazette!!
I have thoroughly researched Obama’s supposed past and the truth is: There is no truth.
Investigative articles that I have written have been published in over 500 websites, 27 countries and translated into 8 languages.
The entire World, minus the USA, knows Obama is a fraud.
For the editors of the Greeley Gazette and anyone else, you can read my thoroughly documented articles at: http://www.MarkSMcGrew.blogsot.com
There are many lawsuits asking Obama to prove he is eligible. All Courts have REFUSED to hear the arguments.
The US Supreme Court has lawsuits filed with them regarding Obama’s eligibility, stalling all they can.
US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recently said, when asked about Presidential eligibility, “We’re evading that one.” See video here: http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=142101
The truth is: Lt. Col. Lakin and ALL MILITARY personel can be EXECUTED for obeying unlawful orders.
Orders from a person who is not eligible to be Commander in Chief are UNLAWFUL.
Thank you for speaking with Margaret Hemenway and Orly Taitz and showing their side of this Treason.

Certificate’s of Live Birth are not birth certificates and can be bought any where in the world.
Also, Barry Soetoro never did a legal name change to Barack Hussein Obama.
Barry Soetoro was the name he used to register at Occidental College. He also listed Indonesia for his citizenship.
Barry received a Fulbright Scholarship which only goes to foreign students. He also called himself “king barry”.
Remember, an ex KGB agent made the statement on TV to the reporter – you would be surprised how many Harvard educations the KGB paid for !
The installation of Barry Soetoro into the oval office, is the biggest act of High Treason ever levied against any country.
However, the citizens refuse to do any thing – LIVE WITH THE AFRICAN DICTATOR (Odinga is a first cousin).

Poor little Birthers (still in denial about their losses), but the Judge will continue to smack down the crazies . To all the birthers in La, La Land, it is on you to prove to all of us that your assertion is true (TOUGH WHEN YOU KEEP LOSING CASES), if there are people who were there and support your position then show us the video (everyone has a price), either put up or frankly shut-up. I heard Orly Taitz, is selling a tape (I think it’s called “Money, Lies and Video tape”). She is from Orange County, CA, now I know what the mean when they say “behind the Orange Curtain”, when they talk about Orange County, the captial of Conspiracy Theories. You know Obama has a passport, he travel abroad before he was a Senator, but I guess they were in on it.

In my opinion the Republican Party has been taken over the most extreme of clans; the Baggers, Birthers and Blowhards (people who love to push their beliefs on others while trying to take away the rights of those they just hate) and that’s who they need to extract from their party if they real want to win in November. Good Luck, because as they said in WACO, “We Ain’t Coming Out”.

I wonder if Orly Taitz, is a mail order bride, just like her law degree? She is perfect reporter material for “Fake News”, where unfounded rumors and innuendo reign supreme, unlike a our US courts of law. The way our courts work is that you get a competent lawyer, verifiable facts and present them to a judge, if the facts are real and not half baked lies, then, and only then, you proceed to trial. The Birthers seem to be having a problem with their so called facts that they present. Let’s face it no one will go along with you until you guys win a case, but until then, you will continue to appear dumb, crazy or racist, or maybe all three. A lawyer, dentist, realtor and black belt, WOW I must say a JACK of all trades master of none.

Margaret Hemenway’s desperate spinning above would be humorous were it not so patently dishonest.

Stefan Cook’s orders were revoked because they were voluntary, and his challenge of them constituted his own revocation of his offer to deploy, not because anybody wanted the case to “go away quietly.” LTC Lakin’s orders were not voluntary, and as such he will suffer the full consequences of his choice to disobey them.

Tim Adams was a temporary employee working in Hawaii on voter’s records at a time when Obama was not even a voter there. He himself admits that he is, at best, passing on a rumor he heard and nothing more.

Susan Daniels current testimony concerning Obama’s SSN directly contradicts her own previously published warnings regarding the reliability of gleaning SSNs from public databases, as well as the SSA’s own web page that points out a person does not have to live in the State where a SSN was issued.

And finally, Orly Taitz (still trying desperately to dodge the $20,000 in sanctions levied against her for courtroom misconduct in the Rhodes case) is just blowing smoke regarding computational linguistics which cannot be performed on single words.

It is disheartening to see so much disinformation packed into a single article. Jack martin certainly did not make any effort to access the excellent debunking work of organizations like Politijab.com who have to this point correctly predicted the outcomes of every single Birther case or initiative ever attempted. Such slothful reporting belongs in comments by the likes of DraggingCanoe and MarkS.McGrew, but not under the byline of an actual journalist.

Those who encouraged him in his woeful misunderstanding of military law and gullible acceptance of this idiotic conspiracy theory should all be ashamed of themselves, as should the reported who ‘bought’ every birther lie and republished them here.

Historian Dude apparently specializes in obscuring the issue. His comments are as mistaken as his misspelling of my name (my name is Minor not Martin). I realize it takes a lot of research to get that information correct since it is at the top of the article and all but I digress.

It is always very telling when a response for answers from our elected officials is met by attacking those who dared to do such as thing rather than deal with the issue. Regarding the birth certificate issue, the Greeley Gazette has never once taken the position that President Obama was not born in the United States. This can be easily confirmed by reading all of our articles on the issue and since we are a fairly new organization it is not that difficult.

I have said that at this point my opinion on the matter is agnostic, that is I simply do not know. One thing I do understand is that any person in public office who conceals much about their past such as his kindergarten records, Punahou school records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, passport, medical records, his files from his years as an Illinois state senator, his Illinois State Bar Association records, any baptism records, and his adoption records should make us ask the simple question why?

My daughters had to present their long form birth certificates which show the signature of the delivering doctor on them just to attend school. Moreover, if they were to transfer to another school in the state the new school would request transcripts from the previous school to ensure they were in fact eligible for a certain grade. Imagine if I were to say, no you cannot access their transcripts, I will not allow it just place them according to their age. Do you think the school would simply say “ok”? I don’t think so.

Regarding Tim Adams, he was not simply some minor temporary worker, he was a senior elections clerk and a DEMOCRAT who has said he does believe Obama is eligible to be President. I find it amazing when individuals want to lump him in together with all the “Obama haters” when he is the farthest thing from it. It is implied that he is fabricating his account because “Obama was not even a voter there.” That has nothing to do with his statement that “As of the time I was in Hawaii working in the elections office we had many people who were asking about the eligibility of Senator Obama to be president. I was told at the time there is no long-form birth record, which would have been the case if President Obama was born in [a] hospital in Honolulu. There is no such form in Hawaii” as the people who were asking were not asking if Obama was a current voter and keeping in mind that the average citizen does not know the specifics of the inner workings of government it would be logical for some to go to the election department to ask these questions.

I find the concept of a Major’s orders to deploy suddenly now being called voluntary. I appreciate the new insight, during my time in the Marine Corps I never new orders were something that I could voluntarily choose to obey or not. When I twice received orders to go to the Pacific I did not know I was making a “voluntary” offer to go. I will be sure to pass that along to all of my fellow service members and Reservist friends I know.

As for the Connecticut Social Security Number it is true that you do not have to live in the state where a SSN was issued, however those that work in that department say it is unusual. Moreover, even if Obama was in fact issued that number it was issued between 1977 and 1979 so are we to assume that he worked for Baskin-Robbins for two years “off the books”? I am not saying he did or did not however that is a fair question if you are going to defend the SSN as his. You also claim it contradicts her testimony over “gleaning SSN’s from PUBLIC databases” however the information she obtained was from a law-enforcement database, something that is slightly different wouldn’t you think? When asked about it at a press conference Robert Gibbs refused to deal with the issue, switching it to the birth certificate issue. This has nothing to with his birth certificate, it is an entirely different issue.

You mentioned Taitz and her “computational linguistics which cannot be performed on single words” however I have noticed that no one specifically addresses the questions themselves, namely why does the form say African for fathers race when that was not the common usage in the 1960’s?

I will say in conclusion that is interesting that we do have a large number of people including press secretary Robert Gibbs who say they have seen the President’s birth certificate. Very well, then why not let the rest of us see it? If they are referring to what is available online then they need to stop calling it a birth certificate and use the correct term and say “I have seen the president’s Certification of Live Birth.” The two are different as we have shown by presenting a copy of both Obama’s COLB and a long form birth certificate from that same period.

Again, I am not saying Obama was not born in the US all I am saying is show us the long form certificate. If you say well “birthers” do not really care about that, if we presented it they would come up with something else. Well there would no doubt be those who might do so, I say call their bluff. Show them the form and then you can say “see I told you so.”

Let me begin by apologizing for getting Jack Minor’s name wrong. That error, however, appears to be the only thing deserving of a correction in my comment above. Not so with Minor’s fascinating response.

It is always interesting when a writer poltroonishly feigns “agnosticism” while simultaneously pumping easily identifiable falsehoods. Much of it is little more than an unverified cut and paste from hard core Birther propaganda sources. What I had assumed was merely a lapse in journalistic quality turns out instead to be a full fledged abandonment of journalistic integrity.

For example, he writes, “One thing I do understand is that any person in public office who conceals much about their past such as his kindergarten records, Punahou school records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, passport, medical records, his files from his years as an Illinois state senator, his Illinois State Bar Association records, any baptism records, and his adoption records should make us ask the simple question why?”

This exact list of supposedly “concealed” documents is commonly replicated on Birther web-sites word for word. Any genuine journalist would have noticed that some of these ‘documents” are actually already public record, that none of them have ever been voluntarily released by any other sitting President, and that several are imaginary and do not even exist.

How does a person who claims to be a journalist miss that? And seriously… his kindergarten records?

No. Seriously?

He then goes on to write, “My daughters had to present their long form birth certificates which show the signature of the delivering doctor on them just to attend school.”

In point of fact, this is not a true statement. His daughters may have had to present birth certificates. But under the US Constitution, the school would have no choice but to accept whatever form (long or short) that the State issued and certified, regardless of whether or not it bore the signature of the delivering doctor. Given Mr. Minor’s apparent aversion to actually doing his own research, I point him to the “full faith and credit” clause found in Article IV, Section 1 of the United States Constitution.

Mr. Minor then embarks on some furious hand waving regarding Tim Adams the (yes) temporary office worker from Hawaii whose 15 minutes of fame mercifully ended elsewhere several weeks ago. The point remains, and Mr. Minor’s own quotation shows, that Adams has never once claimed to have any direct knowledge of what is at worst an office rumor… one that has been directly denied by the Republican Governor of Hawaii and the Republican Director of the Hawaii Department of Health. No need to ponder on Adams’s inexplicable year and a half delay before coming forward with this “explosive” non-story.

Mr. Minor then writes, “When I twice received orders to go to the Pacific I did not know I was making a ‘voluntary’ offer to go.” There is probably a very good reason for that, Mr. Minor. You did not volunteer. Cook did. Your situations were different because, surprise, surprise, your situations were different. His deployment was voluntary and subject to his own voluntary revocation at any point before deployment.

If anyone is still paying attention we have already gotten far afield from issues relevant to presidential eligibility. Minor is now embarked on the frantic “anomaly hunting” characteristic of 9/11 Truthers and Moon Landing denialists. The SSN number for example is not only entirely irrelevant to any eligibility issue, it is devoid of any plausible nefarious motive. What fraudulent purpose would be facilitated by anybody getting a Social Security Number at a mailing address in another state? Minor admits that there is nothing that prohibits it, but at least you would imagine he could come up with a reason it would be suspicious beyond its rarity. Apparently not.

But worse, Minor asserts without good reason that “the information she (the Private Investigator) obtained was from a law-enforcement database, something that is slightly different wouldn’t you think?”

Different from what?.

In another breathtaking vacuum of investigative effort, Minor asks a question that was asked and answered over two years ago. “(W)hy does the form say African for fathers race when that was not the common usage in the 1960’s?” Certainly for the same reason other Hawaiin birth certificates from that time show the parents races as “American,” or “Japanese” or “Italian.”

Hawaii allowed (and still allows) parents to self identify their racial affiliation on their children’s birth records. In 1961, Barack Obama Sr. actually WAS African, and not a “negro.” There were (and still are) no “negroes” in Africa. That is an American label, and Obama Sr. was from Africa. What else would he have called himself?

I will say in conclusion that my previous dissatisfaction with the pathetic quality of the article above has evolved greatly. Where first I chalked it up to bad journalism, this response exposes it as willful propaganda by a writer who fails the most rudimentary test of journalistic integrity. It is a Birther diatribe. Nothing more, nothing less, nothing else.

To HistorianDude, Good work! You have convinced me that all birthers are insane.
I will never again question his Lordship’s word. He is Supeme. The Universal Master of all that is all, was all and will be all.
And your own brilliance is just awe inspiring. You have actually convonced me to ignore reality and facts and just accept the Chosen One and his Dis-barred wife. I can only heap praise upon praise for his Imperial Highness, staying faithful to his wife and giving up his license to practice law also.
You are wonderful. Just with insults and mistruths, without quoting one single factual detail, you have convinced me that people who ask questions are far inferior to those as lofty as you.
Brain vomit. Puke from the mind. No facts. No quotes. No documents. Just sheer forcefulness, name calling, insults, mis-statements………..it’s all too easy. I should have known that I may run into someone as knowledgeable and honest as you.
I promise I will never question Barky again. Everything he does is most Holy. (do Muslims believe in “Holy”?)
Now I know that the State of Illinois took Michelle’s law license away because she is black.
They took Barky’s law license away because he’s black. And THAT is an insult, because Barky is not black. He is 50% white, 37.5% Arab and 12.% black.
Thank you HistorianDude, I feel better now.

Where most of the falsehoods in his article and comment are merely the credulous repetition of long discredited Birther talking points, at least on appears to be an original invention that he personally made up himself. It has to do with the SSN database searches by private investigator Susan Daniels.

He wrote, “You also claim it contradicts her testimony over “gleaning SSN’s from PUBLIC databases” however the information she obtained was from a law-enforcement database, something that is slightly different wouldn’t you think?”

Knowing that Susan Daniels did not claim in her original affidavit that she obtained the information “from a law-enforcement database,” I previously observed that Minor was making that claim “without good reason.” Since then I have checked again Daniel’s Affidavit which includes the actual printouts of the database searches she made.

Guess what? Not one of them was from a “law-enforcement database.” All were for-profit, commercial databases that glean and compile information from multiple sources of various quality, making the information publicly available to anybody with a credit card.

Jack Minor is shown here not to merely to pass on the propaganda of others, but on occasion to make up a little of his own.

2. Obama, as far as the evidence shows, does not have a drop of Arab blood.
Prove it. What evidence? Prove it. You said you have evidence he has not one drop of Arab blood, so prove it.

Obama zombies are funny…………and fun to play with too! They NEVER have one shread of evidence to support their claims. They ALL rely on insults and ridicule just like their wonder boy, Barry Soetoro.
And oh, HistorianDude………………I put one typo in here so you would be justified in criticizing me.

Really?? What does this mean? Have you ever heard of a lawyer voluntarily surrendering his license?

Well for starters, it certainly doesn’t mean they were “disbarred.” Licensure and membership in the bar are two completely different things. So it appears you are no longer defending your lie that either had been disbarred. That alone is progress.

But that said, yes. Lawyers who no longer practice law voluntarily surrender their law licenses all the time. Doing so means they no longer have to pay for (useless) legal malpractice insurance. And you may have noticed: Neither Michelle nor Barack Obama have practiced law since before they voluntarily surrendered their licenses.

Prove it. What evidence? Prove it. You said you have evidence he has not one drop of Arab blood, so prove it.

You have that completely bass ackwards, Mark. I will accuse you of illiteracy rather than lying when you said I made any claims of evidence that he has no Arab blood. Since it is impossible to prove a negative (something most smart people already know) it would have been stupid for me to have said such a thing.

You even quoted what I actually said, Mark. Read it again.

Now, in contrast, you made a very specific affirmative claim that Obama has “37.5%” Arab. So the burden of proof is on you. Show us that this claim is not a bald faced lie. Identify for us by name the three Obama great-grandparents that would have to be 100% Arab for this to be true?

Of course, you have no such evidence because it is a lie. I say again, as far as the evidence shows, Obama does not have one drop of Arab blood. He is 50% white, and 50% black.